quotes of day Monday, July 13, 2026

“I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.”

“Whatever the question, love is the answer.”

“Little did I realize that my desire to add value to others would be the thing that added value to me!”

“Ever eating, never cloying, All-devouring, all-destroying Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last.”

“There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way.”

“I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better.”

“The problem in our society and in our schools is to inclulcate, without overdoing it, the notion of education, as in the Latin educere--to lead, to bring out what is in someone rather than merely to indoctrinate him/her from the outside. (89)”

“If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade.”

“A good speech should be like a woman's skirt: long enough to cover the subject and short enough to create interest”

“Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.”

“Whether you believe it a moral imperative or in the rich world's enlightened self-interest, securing the conditions that will lead to a healthy, prosperous future for everyone is a goal I believe we all share.”